Job 19:1
Then Job answered and said,
Job 19:2
How long will you vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
Job 19:3
These ten times have you reproached me: you are not ashamed that you make yourselves strange to me.
Job 19:4
And be it indeed that I have erred, my error remains with myself.
Job 19:5
If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:
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Know now that God has overthrown me, and has compassed me with his net.
Job 19:7
Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
Job 19:8
He has fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness in my paths.
Job 19:9
He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
Job 19:10
He has destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and my hope has he removed like a tree.
Job 19:11
He has also kindled his wrath against me, and he counts me to him as one of his enemies.
Job 19:12
His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.
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He has put my brothers far from me, and my acquaintance are truly estranged from me.
Job 19:14
My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
Job 19:15
They that dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
Job 19:16
I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I entreated him with my mouth.
Job 19:17
My breath is strange to my wife, though I entreated for the children's sake of my own body.
Job 19:18
Yes, young children despised me; I arose, and they spoke against me.
Job 19:19
All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
Job 19:20
My bone sticks to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
Job 19:21
Have pity on me, have pity on me, O you my friends; for the hand of God has touched me.
Job 19:22
Why do you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
Job 19:23
Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!
Job 19:24
That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
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For I know that my redeemer lives, and that he shall stand at the latter day on the earth:
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And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:
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Whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.
Job 19:28
But you should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?
Job 19:29
Be you afraid of the sword: for wrath brings the punishments of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment.